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Wednesday, 11 May 2022

ID help, pleas

This distinctive-looking golden-headed little moth looks familiar but my searches of books and internet have been in vain, so help would be appreciated.

Richard Ellis
Chorleywood

3 comments:

  1. Hi Richard. That's Spuleria flavicaput. The specific name means "yellow head". I've only ever caught a single individual, but I remember that identifying it took a while!

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  2. Hi Richard,
    Tim is correct. The image in the micro field-guide is a reasonable representation of it so I'm surprised you missed it there. There are about a dozen widely-spaced records for Bucks (...four of them from your garden!) so I suspect it is under-recorded.

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  3. Thanks Tim and Dave. That's rather embarassing! I certainly should have remembered it, having seen it before, or at least found it in the field-guide. Must be getting senile.

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